1964 Born in Korea
1987 BFA in Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul.
Solo Exhibitions
2008 PKM TRINITY GALLERY, Seoul (October 16 - November 20)
2008 Lehmann Maupin,New York, May 8 - June 14
2007 Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris (mid-November 2007 - February 2008)
2007 Galeire Thadaeus Ropac, Paris (October - November)
2007 PKM GALLERY, Seoul (April 20 - May 16)
2007 Domus Artium 02, Salamanca (January 26 - April 1)
2005 SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo (September 29 - October 29)
2005 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (June 25 - September 18)
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (November 2, 2004 - February 27, 2005)
2004 PKM GALLERY, Seoul (October 1 - November 12)
2004 Deitch Projects, New York (April 24 - June 5)
2003 Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (October 18, 2003 - January 14, 2004)
2003 Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (August 9 - September 28)
2003 Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan (August 2 - September 15)
2003 Japan Foundation, Tokyo (June 7 - July 13)
2003 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona (May 10 - August 17)
2002 The Power Plant, Toronto (December 14, 2002 - March 2, 2003)
2002 MAC, Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, Marseille (November 30 -February 16, 2003)
2002 Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (September 6 - October 20)
2002 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (May 17 - July 7)
2002 Le Consortium centre d'art contemporain, Dijon (April 20 - July 13)
2002 PKM GALLERY, Seoul (March 27 - May 3)
2002 Rodin Gallery, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (March 22 - May 5)
2002 Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (January 26 - April 28)
2001 Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (November 9, 2001 - January 12, 2002)
2001 SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo (October 25 - December 8)
2001 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (April 6 - May 19)
2001 BAWAG Foundation, Vienna (February 16 - April 1)
2000 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka (August 26 - October 17)
2000 Kukje Gallery, Seoul (May 19 - June 15)
1999 Korean Pavilion, 48th Venice Biennale * (June 12 - November 7)
1999 Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (February 6 - March 28)
1998 Artsonje Center, Seoul (October 16 - November 15)
1997 "Projects," Museum of Modern Art, New York (January 23 - March 25)
1994 "Unforgiven," A Space, Toronto*
1988 IL Gallery, Seoul (September 10 - September 18)
* asterisk denotes two-person show
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 "Prospect.1 New Orleans", New Orleans, Louisiana (forthcoming in November)
"Fluid Street – alone, together", KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (forthcoming in
May)
2008 "Worlds of Glass", Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf (forthcoming in April)
2008 "MOBILE ART", Chanel Contemporary Art Container, touring Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York,
London, Moscow, Paris (February, 2008 – February, 2010)
2008 "ART IS FOR THE SPIRIT : Works from the UBS Art Collection", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2007 "Tomorrow," Artsonje Center, Seoul
2007 "Views from the Bosphorus," Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
2007 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Curated by Hou Hanru
2007 "Global Feminisms," Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
2006 "Real Utopia," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2006 "Dirty Yoga," Curated by Dan Cameron, 2006 Taipei Biennial
2006 "The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2006 "100 Years of Korean Art – Part 2," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2006 "Uneasy Nature," Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
2005 "Baroque and Neo-Baroque: The Hell of the Beautiful," Domus Artium 02, Salamanca
2005 "Gorgeous Isn't Good Enough," Spazio Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan
2005 "California Modern," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
2005 Art Unlimited, Art 36 Basel
2005 "Visions of the Body," Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2005 "IDYL," Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheim, Antwerp
2005 "Encounters with Modernism," National Museum of Art, Deoksugung Palace, Seoul
2005 "(My private) HEROES," MARTa, Herford, Germany
2005 "New Acquisitions 2004," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2004 "The Nature Machine," Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2004 "Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony – Emerging Resonances," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2004 Inaugural exhibition, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
2004 "Why Not Live For Art?" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
2004 "Standing on a Bridge," Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
2004 "Andererseits: Die Phantastik," Landesgalerie, Linz
2004 Artes Mundi Prize, National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff
2003 "world rush_4 artists," National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2003 "Five: The Artsonje Collection," Artsonje Center, Seoul
2003 "Girls Don't Cry," Parco Museum, Tokyo
2003 "The Uncanny," Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
2002 "Shape," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2002 "BINGO," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2002 "Fusion Cuisine," Deste Foundation, Athens
2002 "Walk Around Time: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2002 "The Uncanny," Vancouver Art Galley, Vancouver | Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
2002 "My Reality: The Culture of Anime," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
2001 "Record All Over," 9th Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
2001 "ARS 01: Third Space," Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2001 "Egofugal," Curated by Yuko Hasegawa, 7th International Istanbul Biennial
2001 "Connivence," Curated by Laurence Hazout-Dreyfus, 6th Biennale de Lyon
2001 "The Collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2001 "Body as Byte," Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
2001 "01.01.01: Art in Technological Times," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2001 "My Reality: The Culture of Anime," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines | Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
2001 "Let's Entertain," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg | Miami Art Museum, Miami
2000 "Au-delà du Spectacle," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2000 Shanghai Biennale, Curated by Toshio Shimizu and Hou Hanru, Shanghai Art Museum
2000 "media_city seoul," Curated by Barbara London and Jeremy Millar, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2000 "Lust Warande," De Oude Warande, Tilburg, organized by Fundament Foundation
2000 "Air Air," Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
2000 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Selected by Nancy Spector, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
2000 "Zeitwenden," Künstlerhaus Wien | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
2000 "Tourlou, tourlou," Melina Mercouri Art Space, Hydra, Greece
2000 "Der anagrammatische Körper," Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000 "La casa, il corpo, il cuore," National Gallery, Prague
2000 "Continuum 001," Curated by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
2000 "Let's Entertain," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis | Portland Art Museum, Portland
2000 "Slowness of Speed," Artsonje Center, Seoul
1999 "Zeitwenden," Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
1999 "Cities on the Move 7," Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
1999 "Der anagrammatische Körper," Kunsthaus Muerz in cooperation with Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
1999 "La casa, il corpo, il cuore," Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
1999 "dAPERTutto," Curated by Harald Szeemann, 48th Venice Biennale
1999 "Hot Air," Curated by Fumio Nanjo, Granship Center, Shizuoka, Japan
1999 "Slowness of Speed," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1999 "Cities on the Move 5," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebæk, Denmark
1999 "Cities on the Move 4," Hayward Gallery, London
1998 "Sarajevo 2000," Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
1998 "Slowness of Speed," National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1998 "The Natural World," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
1998 Hugo Boss Prize 1998, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
1998 "Cities on the Move 3," capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
1998 "Cities on the Move 2," P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1998 "Traffic Jam," Büro Friedrich, Mitte, Berlin
1997 "Cities on the Move," Curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Hou Hanru, Secession, Vienna
1997 "Fast Forward," The Power Plant, Toronto
1997 "L'autre," Curated by Harald Szeemann, 4th Biennale de Lyon
1997 "619 KBB 75," Car installation project with Pipilotti Rist, Georgina Starr, and others, curated by Laurence Hazout, Paris and Berlin
1996 "Join Me!" Curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
1996 "Arcos da Lapa," Public projection, Rio de Janeiro, organized by Laboratoire (Grenoble)
1995 "Information and Reality," Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1995 6th Triennale Kleinplastik, Curated by Lóránd Hegyi, Südwest LandesBank Forum, Stuttgart
1995 "Korean Contemporary Art," 1st Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
1995 "New Asian Art," Japan Foundation, Tokyo
1995 "Ssack," Artsonje Center, Seoul
1995 "Body and Recognition," Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
1994 "Technology, Environment & Information," Recycling Art Pavilion, Expo Science Park, Daejeon, Korea
1994 Untitled installation and performance, Before Building, Myeong-dong, Seoul
1994 "This Kind of Art–Dish Washing," Kumho Museum, Seoul
1994 "Woman: The Difference and the Power," Hankuk Museum, Seoul and Yongin, Korea
1994 "The Vision of the Next Generation," Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
1993 1st Asia-Pacic Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1993 "Plastic Spring," Curated by Yongwoo Lee, Duk Won Gallery, Seoul
1993 Conversation, Performance, Proto Theater, Tokyo
1993 Impromptu Amusement, Performance, Kunitachi Art Hall, Tokyo
1992 Diet: Diagramming III, Performance, Sagak Gallery, Seoul
1992 Year of Ears: Diagramming II, Performance, Live House Nanjang, Seoul
1991 "At the Forest of Chaos," Jahamoon Gallery, Seoul
1991 "DMZ: Art and Cultural Movement," Seoul Arts Center
1991 "Dish Washing," Sonamu Gallery, Seoul
1991 "BIO," Space Ozone, Seoul
1991 Interaction, Five-day performance with Chino Shuichi, Suwon Castle, Korea
1990 "Tokyo–Seoul Traffic," K Gallery, Tokyo
1990 "Sunday Seoul," Sonamu Gallery, Seoul
1990 Artoilet II, Performance, Space Theater, Seoul
1990 Song of the Fish, Performance, Dong Soong Art Center, Seoul
1990 Sorry for Suffering–You Think I'm a Puppy on a Picnic, Twelve-day performance beginning in Gimpo Airport, Korea, and continuing throughout various sites in Tokyo
1989 Cravings, Performance, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
1989 Abortion, Performance, Dong Soong Art Center, Seoul
1989 Korean Installation Art Festival, Total Art Museum and Sculpture Park, Jang Heung, Korea
1988 "U. A. O." Renoir Art Hall, Seoul
1988 "Anti-Idea," Total Art Museum, Seoul
1988 "Point of View and Point in Time II," Batang Gol Gallery, Seoul
1988 Hong Ik Sculpture Association Annual, Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
1987 "Museum III," Soo Gallery, Seoul
1987 "Print of Concept," P&P Gallery, Seoul
1987 "Point of View and Point in Time," Batang Gol Gallery, Seoul
1987 "Museum," Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul